Madagascar 3 roars to the top of U.K. box office

The latest Dreamworks animation, starring the voices of Ben Stiller and Chris Rock, beat out competition from horror movie Paranormal Activity 4, which took $4 million (£2.5 million).

Last week’s (begs15Oct12) chart-topper Taken 2 drops to third place, with $3.5 million (£2.2 million), and Hotel Transylvania ($1.6 million/£1 million) and Looper ($1.2 million/£781,211) round out the top five.